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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2017
Applicant:

Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);

Inventors:

Sylvie Gomes, Manhasset, NY (US);

Diana Pani, Montreal, CA;

Bhaskar M. Anepu, Allentown, PA (US);

Christopher R. Cave, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, CA;

Assignee:

InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/20 (2009.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04W 36/04 (2009.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/04 (2013.01); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 8/186 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); H04W 84/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and instrumentalities to optimize procedures relating to machine type communication devices. Individual UEs may be grouped together in order to optimize procedures relating to members of the group. For example, a group of UE devices may be predefined or a group may be configured by a network associated with the UEs. One or more of the members of the group may be designated as a special UE or a master UE. The special UE or master UE may perform an action on behalf of one or more members of the group.


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